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Welcome to the Movable Type Design Assistant

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Your Movable Type blog deserves a design as unique as your ideas. This tool helps everyone from beginners to experts select, customize, and apply a custom design to an MT-powered site.

What does the Design Assistant do?

  • Lets you choose from a starting point based on common MT blog designs
  • Helps you become familiar with MT's default template set
  • Assists in making style changes to your blog via CSS
  • Offers live previews of edits you make to your styles
  • Helps you customize individual sections of the page just by clicking
  • Shows you how to apply your custom style to your blog

There are 6 standard column layouts that work with all of the default styles and CSS in Movable Type. Each of these designs is 940 pixels wide by default, which you can change by Customizing your CSS. The last two options are good choices if you want to fit larger advertising or widgets on your site.

If you know CSS it's easy to your own styles. In the textarea to the right, we've added a few lines of CSS. Click "Apply CSS" to see those styles applied to the sample blog.

To modify a specific part on the page, click on the element below and we'll start writing the CSS for you.



  1. Login in to Movable Type
  2. In Design > Styles, select (unselected)
  3. Below the large thumbnail on the right, you'll see Layout options. Choose Wide-Thin-Thin
  4. In Design > Templates, click to edit the Stylesheet template. Copy and paste the folowing CSS after the existing css.

Learn More

Stay tuned for dozens more designs, a lot more customizability, and the ability to share your customized themes right from the Design Assistant. Meanwhile, check out the following resources:

Movable Type Documentation

Help with CSS

Movable Type Design Assistant / version 1.0

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